- Nov 07, 2020
Chair Quotes
Lines on a familiar object with more than one meaning.
This set of chair quotes moves from an academic chair passed down within a family to a drum line seat earned through years of practice. Explore more under Go.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really have to accept the fact that I'm not a young man anymore, that I've probably taken one lifetime's worth of punishment already, and I really do need to be careful. Certainly I don't want other WWE superstars taking the shots I did. That makes me feel very uncomfortable when I see somebody get hit with an unprotected chair shot.
- Life
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I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
- Criminal Law
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- Nov 07, 2020